The forest floor was nothing but patches of brown. No ferns, no brush, no flowers, and definitely no wildlife. Everything was dead except for rows of hand-planted baby trees. Subscribe to Mother Jones podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. This is what reporter Nate Halverson found while mushroom foraging in the California […]

Loved ones are mourning a father who drowned in a lake in Lincoln Heights while saving his son’s life. Juan Andrade, 55, was spending time at Lincoln Park with his 14-year-old son, a familiar spot in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood located just a few minutes from their home. His wife, Michelle Andrade, said Juan had […]

A 22-year-old man from Newport Beach was sentenced to 70 months in prison for stealing  $263 million in cryptocurrency to fund a “fantastically extravagant” lifestyle, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced Friday. The culprit, Evan Tangeman, used an “elaborate social engineering scheme orchestrated by a multi-state criminal enterprise” to steal the cryptocurrency, Pirro said. On Dec. […]

A Cal Fire firefighter-paramedic was arrested for the alleged sexual assault of two victims. David Renteria, 51, of Placentia, was the focus of an investigation by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force beginning in March. Two victims claimed they had been sexually assaulted by Renteria, investigators said. On April 24, a search warrant […]

A man arrested for a series of sexual assaults targeting women across the San Fernando Valley has been charged with the crimes. Damian Denzell Robinson, 29, was wanted by the Los Angeles Police Department for at least six incidents involving victims between 6 to 73 years old. The assaults occurred on April 19 at various […]

A body has been recovered from inside an Apple Valley home Friday after a domestic dispute reportedly escalated into a stabbing, which then led to a house fire and barricade situation. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department told KTLA that a woman is accused of stabbing a man before setting the house on fire and […]

After cost overruns and delays that pushed the project back by at least a year, the world’s largest wildlife bridge is finally set for a ribbon-cutting. The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing over the 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills is expected to open on Dec. 2, four-and-a-half years after work began, project leaders announced Wednesday during […]

The Justice Department this week announced criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center, alleging that the longtime civil rights watchdog had defrauded its own donors by secretly paying large sums of money to informants within various hate groups. “The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence,” asserted Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche in […]

A shark sighting off Huntington Beach has prompted officials to shut down ocean waters near the pier and pause a major surf competition, according to event organizers. The shark, estimated to be at least 10 feet long and described as “aggressive,” was spotted Thursday afternoon, the Orange County Register reported, triggering a closure of the […]

When Nazir Khan picked up the phone on Wednesday, he was a bit delirious. Hours earlier, he’d had his first bites of food after a twelve-day hunger strike. Alongside two other Minneapolis community organizers, Khan refused food for nearly two weeks in order to draw attention to a persistent, overlooked problem: a trash incinerator that […]